Geometrical methods in high-dimensional topology

Ohio State University, Columbus OH

Workshop: May 16th-20th, 2010

Weekend conference: May 21st, 2010

Organized by: Jean-Francois Lafont (OSU) and Ian Leary (OSU)


Workshop speakers and titles:


Weekend conference speakers and titles:

Schedule (workshop talks in Cockin Hall 240, conference talks in Math Tower 154):



Monday, May 16

Time
 Speaker
 Title
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
 Tom Farrell, I
 Smooth versus topological rigidity
2:00 - 3:00 pm
 Arthur Bartels, I
 The Farrell-Jones Conjecture
3:30 - 4:30 pm
 Craig Guilbault, I
 Tools for studying the end of the universe (and other noncompact manifolds)

Tuesday, May 17

Time
 Speaker
 Title
1:00 - 2:00 pm
 Stacy Hoehn
 Obstructions to Fibering Maps (Topology Seminar)
2:00 - 3:00 pm
 Arthur Bartels, II
 Controlled topology
3:30 - 4:30 pm
 Tom Farrell, II
 The best of all possible maps


Wednesday, May 18

Time
 Speaker
 Title
2:00 - 3:00 pm
 Arthur Bartels, III
 Proofs of the Farrell-Jones Conjecture - Part I
3:30 - 4:30 pm
 Craig Guilbault, II
 Some classical applications of the fundamental group at infinity to manifold topology
4:30 - 5:30 pm
 Crichton Ogle
 Introduction to weighted algebraic topology (Intro. to Research Seminar)


Thursday, May 19

 Craig Guilbault, III
Time
 Speaker
 Title
2:00 - 3:00 pm
 Arthur Bartels, IV
 Proofs of the Farrell-Jones Conjecture - Part II
3:30 - 4:30 pm
 End structures and Z-compactifications


Friday, May 20

Time
 Speaker
 Title
2:00 - 3:00 pm
 Tom Farrell, III
 The space of negatively curved metrics
3:30 - 4:30 pm
 Craig Guilbault, IV
 End properties of spaces admitting free group actions

Saturday, May 21 (Talks in MW 154)

 Zhixu Su
Time
 Speaker
 Title
10:00 - 11:00 am
 Piotr Nowak
 Isoperimetric inequalities and controlled coarse homology
11:15 - 12:15 pm
 Stacy Hoehn
 Mapping Cylinder Neighborhoods in Manifold Stratified Spaces
1:45 - 2:45 pm
 Jim Fowler
 Weighted algebraic topology
3:00 - 4:00 pm
 Rational homotopy types of high dimensional manifolds
4:30 - 5:30 pm
 Dan Farley
 On the lower algebraic K-theory of three-dimensional crystallographic groups




Registering for the Conference:

There is no formal registration for this conference. However, if you are interested in attending, please send an e-mail to one of the organizers. This will allow us to add you to the mailing list, and keep you informed of any activities during the weekend of the conference.

Funding:

The conference is partially funded by the NSF grant DMS-0752826. Some limited funds will be available to help cover the costs of attending the conference. If you are interested in attending, please contact the organizers to inquire about funding.

Contacting the organizers:

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the organizers:
  • Ian Leary (Ohio State University), leary@math.ohio-state.edu

This conference is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 0752826, and by the OSU Mathematics Research Institute (MRI).
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.